Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief

by Theodore Ziolkowski

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. "Modes of Faith "addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion s place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226983633
• ISBN13: 9780226983639
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"